Constructors in Go

Question

I have a struct and I would like it to be initialised with some sensible default values.

Typically, the thing to do here is to use a constructor but since go isn\'t

Answer 1

another way is;

package person

type Person struct {
    Name string
    Old  int
}

func New(name string, old int) *Person {
    // set only specific field value with field key
    return &Person{
        Name: name,
    }
}